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Facebook Is No Longer Flat: On Graph Search — The post Facebook Is No Longer Flat: On Graph Search appeared first on John Battelle's Search Blog. — A sample Graph Search result for the query “friends photos before 1999.” — By now the news is sweeping across the blogosophere …

Wall Street to Yelp: Facebook Search Should Scare You — We won't know what yesterday's Facebook search announcement means for a long time. Could take years, really. — But the market made it up its mind very quickly yesterday, and you can see it illustrated quite nicely below …

Facebook launches free calling for all iPhone users in the US — In early January, Facebook began testing free calling over Wi-Fi and cellular data for all Messenger for iPhone users in Canada, and said that a US launch could be coming soon. Apparently, the test went well — a new free calling button has appeared in the app.

New Java Exploit Fetches $5,000 Per Buyer — Less than 24 hours after Oracle patched a dangerous security hole in its Java software that was being used to seize control over Windows PCs, miscreants in the Underweb were already selling an exploit for a different and apparently still-unpatched zero …

HTC M7: first image of the 2013 flagship — Thanks to a trusted source with access to an early version of its firmware, we've finally been given a first look at the HTC M7, a flagship device meant to reverse the fortunes of the slumping Taiwanese manufacturer.

Microsoft teases Surface Pro as 90-day deadline nears — Manger of Surface line says tablet arriving ‘in the coming weeks’ — Microsoft teased the Surface Pro today, hinting that the company will soon announce an on-sale date for its second tablet. — “On my way to the factory to check …

No, Google did not run over a donkey in Botswana — Here's a story you don't see every day. Google on Wednesday has gone on record to deny reports that one of its Google Maps Street View cars killed a donkey in the Kweneng region of Botswana. Seriously, we're not kidding …

Twitter to open office in social network-crazed Brazil — * Follows in footsteps of Facebook and Amazon — Without even setting foot in Brazil, Twitter attracted 40 million subscribers in this social network-obsessed nation. — Now the U.S. company is planning to open an office …

Soho TechLabs Shuts Down Social Travel Site CasaHop — Back in April 2012, the HuffPo cabal-backed Soho TechLabs launched a social travel site called CasaHop that allowed users to “connect with people worldwide to trade homes for vacations and more.” Now, Soho TechLab's CEO Paul Berry told Betabeat …